The Orphan Train To Montana (Orphan Trains Out West #1)

Three lonely people. Two cold bargains. One last chance at a family.

Otis Dyer ordered a bride the way he ordered everything, by contract and on his own hard terms. Cara Fletch came west to keep his house and bear him an heir, a widow who had already lost the only family she ever had to a single cruel winter.

What she found was a man frozen solid by a past he would not name. A grand house with every comfort money could buy, and the one thing it could not.

Neither of them can say what first thaws the ice between them. Perhaps it is the orphan train that comes one bright fall morning and Ray, the hard-eyed boy at the end of the line whom no family will take, who keeps his chin up and his eyes flat and has long since given up on being wanted.

He is placed at last with hard people, worked dark to dark, and the talk of it drifts back across the valley like a cold wind.

Otis knows that boy in his bones. He rode a similar train, thirty years and a thousand miles ago. And as winter closes its fist on the high country, the man who swore he would never need a living soul begins to learn the sum he had backward all his life.

It is not in needing no one that a man stays safe. It is in being kept, and in keeping others, that he is finally made whole.

The Orphan Train To Montana is a tender, sweeping story of second chances, hard-won love, and the family we choose. Perfect for readers of historical western and mail-order-bride romance.